[thelist] semantic markup

[Tim Beadle]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:08:12AM -0400, RUST Randal wrote:
> > That's fair, until someone can demonstrate the benefit of 
> > mixing structural and purely visual style elements,  i'll 
> > advocate pretending that <b> and <i> never existed ;)
> 
> what's wrong with <em> and <strong>? those are semantic, not visual.

They don't cover all situations. If what you want is emphasis, or strong
emphasis, then fine - use them. What you shouldn't do, though, is wholesale
replace all <i> tags with <em>, and <b> with <strong>, as there are many
different semantic meanings for bold text and italics, which are not emphasis.

Tim
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